THE RICHEST MILK.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 168, 26 February 1878, Page 3

THE RICHEST MILK.

Chicago Inter-Ocean,

Which is the richer, morning's milk or evening's milk ? This subject has now been put to the test of chemical analysis, and the result is that the evening's milk is found to be the richer. Professor Boedeker analyzed the milk of a healthy cow at different periods of the day. The Professor found that the solids of the evening's milk (13 per cent) exceeded those of the morning (10 per cent) : while the water contained in the fluid was diminished from 89 per cent to 86 per cent. The fatty matter gradually increases as the day progresses. In the morning it amounts to 2\ per cent, at noon 3-| per cent, and in the evening 5| percent. The practical importance of this discovery is at once apparent. It develops the fact that while sixteen ounces of morning's milk will yield but one-half an ounce of butter, about double the quantity can be obtained from the evenings milk. The caseine is also increased in the evening's milk from 2£ to 2f per cent, but the albumen is diminished from 44-100 per cent to 31-100 per cent. Sugar is less abundant at midnight (4£ per cent) and most plentiful at noon (4| per cent). The percentage of the salt undergoes almost no change at any time of the day.